Tolkien's poetry enriches and complements not only the plot of the story but the development of his fictional world.
Though sticking closely to the plot of the original, Losey turns the story into pungent Americana through his attention to alluringly grubby Los Angeles locations.
The film, which opens this weekend, tells the amazingly true story of a CIA plot to rescue six American stuck in the Canadian embassy during the Iranian hostage crisis with a fake movie.
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The story of how Saatchi lost the plot in the late 1980s and early '90s is itself a case study in being led astray by still trying to act a part in a play that ended a while back, but what's equally interesting is how the company was able to rethink its plot, as Saatchi's chief executive, Kevin Roberts, has noted in his blog.
There is no plot as such and what story there is resists any kind of summary.
The quirk of this movie is that, for all its pretensions to topical soothsaying and its sombre machinations of plot, it remains, in essence, a love story.
The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
The May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of the CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot occurred around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
The Justice Department was interested in the conversations of anyone who worked on a May 7, 2012, story about the CIA thwarting a terrorist plot in Yemen.
While the action is spectacular -- after all, the choreography was handled by kung-fu master Yuen Woo-ping, whose credits include Drunken Master and most recently The Matrix -- what really makes Crouching Tiger a gem is the wonderful blend of nostalgia, stunning cinematography, a fast-paced plot, and -- yes -- a good story.
When you have a story as sprawling as Game of Thrones, with a cast that only continues to grow, and plot-lines sprouting up like magic beanstalks all over the place, the first episode of a season can feel a whole lot like tying up loose ends.
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